Beyond Electric Sheep
Beyond Electric Sheep is a discussion of the impact Artificial Intelligence has on our personal and business lives. How will we interact with these human-like entities that have access to all realms of knowledge and the beginnings of human reasoning?
Beyond Electric Sheep
E16 – The Intersection of Stupid and Smart - Beyond Electric Sheep - A Podcast on AI
Politics are getting dumber. AI is getting smarter. What happens when they meet? In this 12-minute episode, Ed Daniels and Brick Thompson discuss Ed’s latest Medium.com article, “We Have Arrived at the Intersection of Stupid and Smart.”
Today’s Multimodal Large Language Models are incredibly smart and are available for use by millions of people creating the potential for everyone in the United States to get smarter and smarter. On the other hand, politics in the United States seems to get stupider and stupider every day. What’s going to happen when we get to the intersection of Smart and Stupid? Can US voters turn off Stupid Street and turn on Smart?
The name of this podcast, Beyond Electric Sheep, is a reference to the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick. That novel is the source for the movies Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). It explores the themes of artificial intelligence, empathy, and reality in a dystopian future where humans and androids coexist.
The novel raises the question of whether androids can dream or feel anything at all, and whether they are different from humans in any meaningful way. In our Beyond Electric Sheep podcast we go beyond the novel and the movies and discuss the broader implications and applications of artificial intelligence in our personal lives and in our businesses. We explore the pragmatic as well as the ethical and philosophical issues that arise from creating and interacting with intelligent machines.
Beyond Electric Sheep is also available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYg2J0jET_BPCKSnsxz8mleEmYogYJZhn